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(SEAGULLS SQUAWKING) RAOUL:
In 1534, Jacques Cartier claimed another piece for France
and named it "Canada." A few years before,
Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian sailing for Portugal,
had proved Columbus wrong again, in that he had not reached
the West Indies, but what he would then call
"the New World." As a result,
a German cartographer, Martin Waldseemüller, gave the name America
to the whole continent
In 1534, Jacques Cartier claimed another piece for France
and named it "Canada." A few years before,
Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian sailing for Portugal,
had proved Columbus wrong again, in that he had not reached
the West Indies, but what he would then call
"the New World." As a result,
a German cartographer, Martin Waldseemüller, gave the name America
to the whole continent
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(SEAGULLS SQUAWKING)
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RAOUL:
In 1534, Jacques Cartier
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claimed another piece for France
and named it "Canada."
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A few years before,
Amerigo Vespucci,
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an Italian sailing for Portugal,
had proved Columbus wrong again,
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in that he had not reached
the West Indies,
00:00:20.014 --> 00:00:23.999
but what he would then call
"the New World."
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As a result,
a German cartographer,
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Martin Waldseemüller,
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gave the name America
to the whole continent.
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Movie Summary
The path to the new world, an unsettling and intricate story of genocides. Conquest, slavery and the fabrication of "Whiteness".
